Using in the Filemanager
Clicking with the on an archive in a filemanager like displays a context menu with an item Open with Ark. The menu has these additional items to extract an archive using :
Extract Archive Here, Autodetect Subfolder creates a subfolder in the folder with the archive and extracts the folders and files into it.
Extract Archive To... opens the Extract dialog where you can choose destination folder and various extraction options.
Extract Archive Here extracts the content of the archive into the same folder.
's context menu for a selection of files and/or folders displays these actions in the Compress submenu:
Here (as TAR.GZ) or Here (as ZIP) creates these archive types in the current folder.
Compress to... opens a dialog where you can select folder, name and archive type.